Is This True Freedom For Modern Women? | Louise Perry

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[inluminatiomea]

The idea of freedom is the ability to choose. Most women though history did not get to be stay at home moms with well paid husband, but worked low paid gruelling jobs in the fields, as maids, teachers, nurses and in factories. Education and higher paid jobs were reserved for men. My mother in the 60s chose to become a surgeon in a male dominated field and had a rewarding career. Without freedom she would end up a nurse. Freedom means she could choose.

[Figgy]

Ah yes slave away for a corporation to attain freedom

[SvetlanaRakhim]

Has always been like that. There always were women who felt and behaved like this. They just didn’t have social media and researchers focused on them.

[lockyp]

Only in the corporate world. Not like they’re out laying bricks. It’s still men doing the heavy lifting. Women are just chasing glory

[danielcasas]

Free to be miserable by thier own making

[MattyT]

I remember Chris said something on DOAC like

"The idea that fleeing from family values to embrace the cold arms of corporate employment is considered freedom, is a laughable idea of freedom."

I believe if I were a woman (though I'll never know) I would rather have the happiest job in the world (housewife) than work for some dickhead boss 50hrs/wk.

[TocaEviezz]

Im not trying to split hairs but after reading the comments and todays culture..i think masculine women is being a little confused with the the 'tom boy' type ladies and the ones who are just ruthless and most probably boarder on social path traits.. abit like some of the men who are running things. Thats why it worked for them. I will have to watch this whole episode to make sure this is what the lady speaking was referring too when talking about masculine women.

[grapetoad]

Is this trying to make a point?
Everyone here is saying women are happier when they don't have to work as if men aren't happier when they don't have to work as well.
The whole freedom is that they can choose to work or not rather than being forced to raise children.
If you have an unfulfilling job, it's not because you should be at home with the kids, it's because you've got a bad job.

(And obviously I'm not saying child rearing isn't hard, I'm just saying that women should get to have a choice aka freedom)

[conscious-universe]

Let women do what makes them happy without judging them.. just because this woman is fine staying at home doesn't mean that's what "most" women want..

[mehreenkhawaja]

How do you define masculine or feminine traits?? Who determined that agreeableness or disagreeableness are masculine or feminine traits

[josueveguilla]

That is an excellent question. And the answer is: I'm not sure.

[DNAppm]

It is not *women* who have taught women that women should imitate men! But as money has no gender and women have worked for lower salaries, worked harder though having higher education, not surprising. Good business for employers. The Nordic countries where women actually have had more to say, have had better messages and programs. *Feminists* have demanded 6 h hour work days for everybody, long parental leaves, excellent childcare for every child, reproductive health care for free; free child health care; good, safe working conditions for everybody, good education for all, etc. The USA seems a parody, if not outright a tragedy, when it comes to gender roles and women's rights.

[MC-rwlc]

Those women who were always "... more masculine..." etc have not 'done well' or at least have been made to pay a terrible price by resentful envious females who, apart from apparently wanting it both ways, other us out of their control-zones, usually family, using all the usual girly tactics (ref JBP) of reputation destruction etc.

[Mmmmkaaay]

I can only speak for myself, but if I could choose all over again, I would have married for resources so I could stay home with my daughter for the first several years. Working FT and then coming home to do the majority of housework and childrearing sucked. I was exhausted all of the time.
That being said, once she started school I would need interaction with other adults and to do work I could feel proud of ( laundry isn't exactly fulfilling intellectually), so I see both sides of the coin when it comes to homemaking versus having a career.

[whoknows]

Having sex like their brother? What does that even mean?

If the brother is having sex it must be with somebody.

[bal]

Be sure of being satisfied with yourself and all attention to our monotheistic God's

[bomzylondon]

Exception doesn't prove the rule, also when they're 40 and have no kids they're miserable

[dontimberman]

But they can't live like there brothers. Because there brothers get married and start family's eventually. Women who wait till 35 to think about marriage and a family almost never do.

[midgetrodgers]

Yeah become liberated and ran through, then rejected by men because we see you as a 304.

[mamonsilla]

I don't understand this idea of " modern women" and " traditional women". Why does society look as a threat women working, being independent, and deciding by themselves? why instead society should level up with this, is pushing the term of a traditional woman. We are in other times, with other problems. men out there level up, and support these amazing women, leave aside this agenda of roles, be more realistic, and understand women nowadays are not traditional anymore and that means, we are demanding more equality in opportunities. But when a man decides to dress as a woman, we as as women, need to level up, understand, and accept them. Double standards!